Stars Update Excellent

Wed Jan 12 02:06:07 UTC 2011

I'm sure there's also a lot of "lobbying" (greasing) in that market. Quite a
few of those proprietary platforms invest quite a bit of cash to maintain
their vendor lock-in. Europe's a bit better and more open to open platforms.

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Chris <candive1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think it's going to be a tough go.
> People think there is only Microsoft.
>
> I am starting to understand the challenge, people are stuck in their ways.
> I'm not changing unless others do, people are afraid of change.
> College teaches with Microsoft because most businesses use it.
> We need to go after businesses at the same time.
>
> When I owned Candive, Ontario until 2005, if I had known there was a free
> alternative I would have used it.
> But I was never afraid of trying something new.
>
> Go! Linux! Go!
>
>
> On 8 January 2011 22:41, Chris <candive1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thank you very much everyone.
>> I really hope this works.
>> Chris.
>>
>>
>> On 8 January 2011 05:44, swfiua at gmail.com <swfiua at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> PyUno is my favourite tool for OO automation:
>>>
>>> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/PyUNO_samples
>>>
>>> gnumeric is well worth a try as another Excel replacement.   Abiword is a
>>> good, lightweight word replacement too.
>>>
>>> Re: i the school asks for Office, that is what you should give them.   I
>>> find they are often not aware there are alternatives, so you should first
>>> show them the alternatives.   Don't over-sell them, but make them aware
>>> there are alternatives.
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 12:25 AM, Tek Ang <rugbeeprop at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is something that keeps me to stay with Excel. Also, I heavily use
>>>> the VBA to automate many things on the Excel.
>>>>
>>>> Btw, does anyone know a good resource to go to if I was going to learn
>>>> about VBA equivalent in OO?
>>>>
>>>> Tek
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------
>>>> *From:* Ilija Milicevic <engr3337 at gmail.com>
>>>> *To:* The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
>>>> *Sent:* Fri, January 7, 2011 5:21:26 PM
>>>>
>>>> *Subject:* Re: Stars Update Excellent
>>>>
>>>> I have to admit that if I had to use a spreadsheet for work, I'd stick
>>>> with Excel. I found OOo calc to be a bit cumbersome and lacking in plugins
>>>> such as ASAP and Microcharts, which are *very *useful in my line of
>>>> work. Fortunately I don't do any more ground method data preprocessing.
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Leigh Honeywell <leigh at hypatia.ca>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I've been running Office 2007 in Crossover for around a year and it's
>>>>> fantastic (well, as fantastic as Office can be :) ).
>>>>>
>>>>> Sadly, Office 2010 is known not to work under Crossover:
>>>>> http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name?app_id=7437 which
>>>>> means that it definitely won't work under Wine.
>>>>>
>>>>> -Leigh
>>>>>
>>>>> On 11-01-07 03:58 PM, Bob Jonkman wrote:
>>>>> > Try Crossover Linux (formerly Crossover Office). It's a paid product,
>>>>> > but probably offers the best Windows emulation going.  And it doesn't
>>>>> > require a Windows license to run (although the school probably does
>>>>> need
>>>>> > an Office2010 license). Office 2010 isn't on the list of "official"
>>>>> > supported applications, but I'd be surprised if it doesn't work.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxlinux/
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Codeweavers, who make Crossover Linux, are a major contributor to the
>>>>> > Wine project.  I think that much of the Crossover code eventually
>>>>> finds
>>>>> > its way into Wine.
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Of course, if the school really wants to figure out Linux then they
>>>>> > should actually use Linux, and actually use native Linux applications
>>>>> > (and, preferably, open document formats too).
>>>>> >
>>>>> > --Bob.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Bob Jonkman<bjonkman at sobac.com>          http://sobac.com/sobac/
>>>>> > SOBAC Microcomputer Services              Voice: +1-519-669-0388
>>>>> > 6 James Street, Elmira ON  Canada  N3B 1L5  Cel: +1-519-635-9413
>>>>> > Software   ---   Office&  Business Automation   ---   Consulting
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > On 11-01-07 01:09 PM, Chris wrote:
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> Hi all,
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> I have been in contact with my Georgian College Prof (dos)
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> Today I dropped off two desktops, 1 Edubuntu & 1 Ubuntu, 2 power
>>>>> cords
>>>>> >> and 2 keyboards.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> They will be installed in the Georgian College Library next week to
>>>>> >> introduce Students to Linux and Promote our Stars Program.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> *_The College also needs to know if Microsoft Office 2010 will run
>>>>> on
>>>>> >> the above computers?? (wine?) I do not have Office 2010. Please
>>>>> Help._*
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> I also met with the Sydenham Public School Principal, he will be
>>>>> >> bringing it up at his board meeting and with the Blue
>>>>> >> Water District School Board
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> I was unable to meet with the O.S.C.V.I. High School Principal but I
>>>>> >> did leave our calling card and Stars description for her.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> I see no problem with moving the desktops.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> Chris
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> Linux Pusher
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> --
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>>>>> >>
>>>>> >>
>>>>>
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